Dr. Sanjay Gupta Gets the Swine Flu

As CNN's chief medical correspondent writes in his blog, Paging Dr. Gupta, he, and a CNN cameraman, picked up the swine flu -- formally known as H1N1 -- while on a trip to Afghanistan.

Gupta says he rarely gets sick, but this time was hit so hard he had seek out a battlefield hospital for treatment.

Says Gupta:

In case you are curious, there wasn't much the doctors could really do for me. Some Tylenol and a sinus decongestant (the same my wife would've given me). We also got IV fluids, given our inability to keep anything down. Within a couple days, I felt a lot better, and a few days after that – I was back to normal. It was a lot like … the flu – with a different name.

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Last week, Harry Smith, host of CBS' The Early Show stayed home after also coming down with swine flu-like symptoms. He did a piece on the topic from his apartment.